Deceptive Calm begins against the turbulent backdrop of 1968.
The aftermath of the discovery brings down one of the pillars of San Francisco society..
A young detective launches an investigation into her past where nothing is as it appears.
Her charmed life abruptly ends when her first child is hospitalized and diagnosed with sickle cell anemia.
Her mesmerizing and glamorous on-air personality moves the station to the top of the Nielsen ratings.
She works her way up the newsroom ranks to become the first female co-anchor of the evening newscast.
Obtaining the birth certificate of a dead White baby, she assumes the child\'s identity to begin her new life.
Her personal traumas include a Ku Klux Klan attack, the death of the nun who reared her, and a back-alley abortion which lead Vanessa to change her race.
During this turbulent period, a stunning light-skinned beauty, Vanessa, lives in a Catholic orphanage for Black children in the Jim Crow South.
In the South, it was a tough time to be Black.
Two American legends, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, are felled by In 1968, two American legends, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr and Robert Kennedy are felled by assassins.
Deceptive Calm begins against the turbulent backdrop of 1968
